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When the snow started falling this weekend, the tail end of a tremendous winter storm that had killed several Syrian refugees in recent days, hundreds of people camped at an abandoned sugar factory here rushed to save their makeshift tents patched with plywood and feed bags. At 1 a.m. Sunday, after hours of clearing snow, Ahmed Saleh and his family of eight had just ducked inside their tent when, despite their best efforts, the roof began to give way. "We started hearing this knocking sound, saw it was swaying and ran out," Saleh, 45, said. By 11 a.m., all that was left of their temporary home in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley was a circle of chairs covered with fresh snow....

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